Ex-"Rage" Guitarist (Tom Morello) Threatens To Run Against Rahm

[Ian David]

Source: NBC Chicago

Tom Morello, former guitarist of Rage Against the Machine, is living up to his ex-band’s name by threatening to run for mayor against Rahm Emanuel.

Morello says Emanuel canceled the permit for a May 18 National Nurses United rally after he was added to the bill. The group originally had permission to march to Daley Plaza but was told to move to Petrillo Music Shell “to accommodate changes to your event, including a performance by a nationally known musician and a significantly increased number of expected attendees.”

Morello raged against Emanuel to Rolling Stone magazine.

“Chicago is my hometown and the mayor is making me feel mighty unwelcome,” he said. “I don’t care what they say or do, I’m coming to rock out and speak my mind. We won't be silenced and we won't be stopped. If Rahm Emanuel is so afraid of my popularity in Chicago maybe I should run against him in the next election. See you in the streets.”

Read more: http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Ex-Rage-Guitarist-Threatens-To-Run-Against-Rahm-150796505.html

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[MoreGOPoop]

1. K & R

Yes!

[Capt. Obvious]

3. Signing up @MayorMorello now

[groundloop]

4. Someone please shed some light. They were asked to move the event, not cancel it....

They were asked to move the event after Morello signed on because of the fact that the attendance would be significantly higher than first anticipated. Is that such a big deal? (Not that I don't think Rahm is a chicken shit and I'd love to see Morello run against him.)









edited for spelling

[JDPriestly]

9. Yes. That is a big deal. The whole point is that the Nurses and Morello should

be able to decide where to hold their event. The point of the whole thing is to get a lot of people out. So if Morello's presence does that, good for the Nurses and good for Morello.

Rahm Emanuel should keep his nose out of the Nurses' event.

[sarcasmo]

5. Run Tom run.

[AzDar]

6. K & R

[madrchsod]

7. if he would win can we still rage against the machine?

rahm is an well placed corporate stooge. just about everyone who follows the democratic party in illinois knows this.

[frylock]

8. i would love to see a populist like morello go up against that shitbird

[arcane1]

13. He's no empty suit either!

He knows his stuff!

[frylock]

25. super smart dood with a lot of political knowledge

[dmallind]

10. And I could threaten to compete for Rodgers' starting QB spot at Green Bay too

It would be exactly as meaningful, and exactly as worrisome to the incumbent.

[Comrade Grumpy]

12. Tell it to Reagan and Schwarzenegger.

[dmallind]

24. Yeah - he's in that league....whatever his name is.

[davidwparker]

11. Smart guy. I hope he does. Never listed to "Rage" music,

but I've seen him on Real Time and other places.

[arcane1]

14. That's my experience as well

I don't know if I've ever heard him play, but I've heard him talk. I certainly like him better than Rahm!!!

[Yuugal]

18. If you like rock, try this song...

"The world is my expense
The cost of my desire
Jesus blessed me with it's future
And I protect it with fire
So raise your fists
And march around
Don't dare take what you need
I'll jail and bury those committed
And smother the rest in greed
Crawl with me into tomorrow
Or I'll drag you to your grave
I'm deep inside your children
They'll betray you in my name

Sleep now in the fire

The lie is my expense
The scope of my desire
The Party blessed me with it's future
And I protect it with fire
I am the Nina The Pinta The Santa Maria
The noose and the rapist
And the fields overseer
The agents of orange
The priests of Hiroshima
The cost of my desire

Sleep now in the fire

For it's the end of history
It's caged and frozen still
There is no other pill to take
So swallow the one
That made you ill
The Nina The Pinta The Santa Maria
The noose and the rapist
The fields overseer
The agents of orange
The priests of Hiroshima
The cost of my desire

Sleep now in the fire"

[Strelnikov_]

15. He will testify n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. K & R. The mayor should shove his tired ol' Joe Pesci

routine up his own ass.

[Ter]

17. Aren't they open Communists?

At least that was the word over a dozen years ago.

[Yuugal]

19. Not sure about that

However, the people who wanted and still want..... to destroy the US by shipping jobs to commie China sure seem like commie enablers to me......or just greedy monsters who care about nobody but themselves.

[David__77]

21. Plenty of progressive-minded people are, but I don't think that should matter here.

His politics are clear. He has more in common with left-wing revolutionaries than the USA establishment, whether he is communist or not.

[WCGreen]

20. He should do it....

I am so sick of these political operatives that are destroying the democratic party with their divisive "Fuck 'em, they have no place else to go" approach to politics.

Rahm is just a republican who doesn't have the balls to say that in public...

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

26. Truer words were never spoken, WC.

The people of the City of Chicago got a pile of sh**e when they elected that asshat as the mayor. God knows Daley and his cronies were bad enough, but he didn't even grow up in the City. He's from the North Shore and went to New Trier HS. I hope and pray someone will run against him in 2015 and beat his DLC butt back to the North Shore where he belongs...

[IndyJones]

22. I would like to see that race!

[joshcryer]

23. That would be, in a word, epic.